"All roads lead through Floyd Mayweather. I'm keeping the sport alive

Let us see what happens if it happens....Lefty

He is a big star,but his talent and his gob and pantomime villain persona unfortuneatly outweigh his actual deeds within the ring. Too many big fights are being missed or happening way too late. I appreciate his skills,but the glaring omissions on his resume make his arrogance and persona look ridiculous. Hes signing to fight the Number 1 WW and P4P Number 3. Tune in.

There was Floyd threads ON HERE everyday. Duing his retirement. He OWNS Boxing.

he talks about not disrespecting? My god he sure looks like an idiot now with the way he disresepected Pac with baseless drug accusations and drug testing demands based on these disrespectful accusations.

But one thing is true though....even when he was retired people were obsessed with talking about him. He is a bigger star than his haters want to admit. He retired with too many questions left unanswered.

floyd will always be good for boxing,kinda like Lex Luther,to Superman!!The super villain,no superpowers,but has a very advanced mind!!floyd's gift of gab is amazing,notice how floyd has talked his way into being compared to the likes of the Robinson's & the Leanards of boxing taking as least risk as possible for the highest rewards,he's a genious!!Seriously!!

Classic article where Money puts the critics and haters in check with a dose of reality. Check it out: LAS VEGAS -- A post-fight, mid-ring confrontation, instigated by Shane Mosley, rankled Floyd Mayweather after he had just defeated Juan Manuel Marquez. Mosley is angling for a fight with Mayweather. “It was a great night for me,” Mayweather said. “Like I told them, I feel it was real disrespectful to me afterwards, inside the ring. “I bring a lot of money to the sport of boxing. I bring a lot of entertainment to the sport of boxing. What I bring to the sport of boxing, no other fighter has ever brought. You don’t see no other fighter who can bring $30 million, $40 million to small weight classes, eight-figure purses to smaller weight classes. If you notice, Ricky Hatton got his biggest payday with me. Juan Marquez got his biggest payday with me. Oscar De La Hoya got his biggest payday with me, so all roads lead through Floyd Mayweather. I’m keeping the sport alive. “So all I want is my respect, the same respect I give Shane Mosley. When Shane Mosley is fighting, I don’t ever get in the ring and disrespect him. I don’t ever disrespect Bernard Hopkins. Just respect me the way I respect you guys. Just because I talk trash on TV, or whatever, doesn’t mean I don’t have a family, or I don’t have nobody who loves me. The same way I dish out respect, I want respect given to me. Trying to spoil my night. This is my night. When it’s your night, I respect your night. I just want the same respect I give out. That’s all I’m asking for.” Mosley took post-fight questions nearly as long as Mayweather. He said the negotiation shouldn’t be a sticking point for the potential fight. “There’s enough money in the pot for everybody,” Mosley said. “I want the fans to know who the real champion is. I’m the pound-for-pound best. I can match the speed, I have more power than him, I’m more aggressive, I’m going to fight. He wants to box a little more. He wants to fight, he’s a great fighter, I like his style, I like the way he’s very sharp, fast, he has all the abilities. It has the makings of the next Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns type of fight.” The Mayweather camp commonly counters with two arguments that work against Mosley. One, Mosley’s earning power is mercurial. Two, he had ample opportunity to accept a Mayweather fight before, including 2006, when he decided to take a vacation after a July win over Fernando Vargas rather than accept a proposal for November of that year. “I had just fought a couple of times that year, in a row, and he wanted to jump in there real quick, after two or three months, and say, ‘Oh, let’s fight,’ ” said Mosley. “I said, ‘No, I’ll fight you in January.’ I said ‘Give me a month and I’ll fight you.’ I told him I will fight him.” Mayweather made a fight with De La Hoya for May 2007 instead. “That’s fine,” Mosley said. “I told him, ‘You fight Oscar, you win, we’ll fight.’ That never happened.” Yet that 2006 decision -- as well as a 1999 proposal when Jack Mosley, who managed his son at the time, said they would only fight Mayweather for $10 million, at a time both earned a fraction of that kind of purse -- continues to rankle the Mayweather camp. “There’s certain reporters out there that will not even touch that,” said Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather’s adviser. “The fact of the matter is that you know, first hand, he had a wonderful opportunity to do this in November of 2006. A wonderful opportunity. He stood right there, on HBO, after the Vargas fight -- he had a wonderful performance in the Vargas fight -- and they asked him about Floyd Mayweather, and we all know what the response was. “Now because he’s had a loss, he’s had a win, he’s had a loss, he had a win, he beat a Margarito who is what he is, now he goes on record saying he’s the guy to beat. He just lost a minute ago, so how’s he the guy to beat? Floyd’s the guy that’s never lost. But then it comes down to the business side. He goes to L.A., sells out Staples Center, has the biggest crowd there ever, but the live gate only does a million-and-a-half dollars. I’m not saying anything that’s not public record. We do a little bit over a $7 million gate for a fight like this. Come on, now. The money is with Floyd Mayweather." The thing is this... he can say 10 sentences and 9 of them being right... haters will still pick the one sentence were he acts disillusional... But I will agree... if he continues with boxing and wants to be still respected he has to go on like he used to and fight the best... guys like Malignaggi, Campbell even though good fighters aren't in his weight class and simply not in his league... guys like that or Hatton shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence as May... how much truth was in it I don't know... I never heard May or somebody of team Mayweather say that though. To many so called boxing journalists post with an agenda when it comes to May

But one thing is true though....even when he was retired people were obsessed with talking about him. He is a bigger star than his haters want to admit. this is true. very true.

But one thing is true though....even when he was retired people were obsessed with talking about him. He is a bigger star than his haters want to admit.

I think the guy is completely deluded. Boxing di nicely without him,and will be much the better when he takes his circus away into retirement with him. No-one reaaly cares about the money unless its the recipient. In three years time I reckon we will see a golden age of boxing with all the talent thats coming up,and then at least the fans will get their sport back. Great points and the 2 years he left are very good. boxing then was experiencing a comeback. But I will disagree. I like him to stay. To fight the best. I do not care about the trashtalk or the money angle they always give as an excuse. I just want him to stay to fight the best. I always believe the sport would be better if he is on it. Great fights can be made. But that is the problem, they have to be made not just imagined.